Is the backhoe loader a thing of the past?

[doobin]

My mates 80k all singing dancing 3cx contractor is on £38 ph to Derbyshire highways! Bonkers! Consistency is what what it pay 5 days a week and some bonus weekends

There’s still no money in it surely?

Break it down. That’s barely £300 a day. Operator £150? Diesel and grease £100? Even if you don’t do anything on site you still have to drive there and that’s where most diesel is burnt.

So £50 a day ‘profit’ (more like depreciation)

 

[Giles]

There’s still no money in it surely?

Break it down. That’s barely £300 a day. Operator £150? Diesel and grease £100? Even if you don’t do anything on site you still have to drive there and that’s where most diesel is burnt.

So £50 a day ‘profit’ (more like depreciation)

They provide fuel

Reality is in an 8 hour shift with a resurfacing gang might do 2 hours tops

 

[V8Druid]

Had a letter from the people who issue it in the week as registered a new company a few months ago. Put it in the bin f**k em for now

Russ has done the same with his for the crane ... can't be arsed .. never been asked for it

 

[craig]

They provide fuel

Reality is in an 8 hour shift with a resurfacing gang might do 2 hours tops

One off our LA`s stopped suppling fuel to contractors, the verge mower tractors used to fill up, cut some verges, go baling silage all night, and repeat

 

[6feetdown]

They provide fuel

Reality is in an 8 hour shift with a resurfacing gang might do 2 hours tops

Was going to say has to be plus fuel

 

[hiluxman]

Was going to say has to be plus fuel

Not on scc or rmbc. Its an all in rate.

 

[6feetdown]

Not on scc or rmbc. Its an all in rate.

Surely with servicing etc that's not sustainable unless your only clocking a few hours a week

 

[hiluxman]

Surely with servicing etc that's not sustainable unless your only clocking a few hours a week

Welcome to South yorkshire.

This place is a vortex

 

[6feetdown]

Welcome to South yorkshire.

This place is a vortex

Crazy isn't it the costs in different parts yet only a couple of hundred miles apart

 

[hiluxman]

Crazy isn't it the costs in different parts yet only a couple of hundred miles apart

It's scary....but likewise we've places to tip absolute shite where in other areas one grass sod get you banned from tipping (or so they make out)

 

[Vinpetrol]

Yup. Still meh. Prefer murpheys, less sweet.

Had a night sampling around two dozen Irish craft beers. Utter rubbish I’m sad to say. All refrigerated, over hopped crap.

The worst was a DIPA. Apparently that stands for double ipa. Couldn’t take more than a sip- was like drinking dettol. Absolutely foul.

Currently drinking Smithwicks red ale. Nothing to write home about.

Good time to negotiate on that old tractor then !

 

[6feetdown]

@doobin. teds shed on YouTube might be helpful he's a 4cx

 

[DaveDCB]

They provide fuel

Reality is in an 8 hour shift with a resurfacing gang might do 2 hours tops

Probably not too bad if they are providing fuel… I bet the councils fuel bill is huge

 

[Smiffy]

Not on scc or rmbc. Its an all in rate.

Ours is paid by the meter. Contractor sorts everything including diesel but they account for how quick their own lads cut it. You have a set period to cut it but you have to increase labour. The private companies run 3 man gangs with zero turn mowers and out front flails that they alternate depending on the grass. The boroughs that are still in house run 6-8 man gangs sometimes more with our front rotary mowers to do the same work. Therefore the private companies can make a decent wedge it despite on the face it being unprofitable.

 

[Giles]

Probably not too bad if they are providing fuel… I bet the councils fuel bill is huge

I think he’s actually on for a surfacing sub contractor so maybe they pick up fuel on fuel cards and white

 

[Smiffy]

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[CPS]

Might be near to you tomorrow morning on the way back to Dublin airport.

You probably weren't far away, did you come down the A5?

 

[doobin]

You probably weren't far away, did you come down the A5?

No idea mate, she was driving! Northern Ireland was a blur to be fair, we only realised when the petrol looked cheaper!

 

[pettsy]

Complete coincidence, was browsing marketplace and that Case machine came up. What are they like compared to JCB?

 

[Storrsy]

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Complete coincidence, was browsing marketplace and that Case machine came up. What are they like compared to JCB?

It's low houred and being ex EA if it's anything like my ex EA 8 tonner it won't have done much. However I've a feeling that machine has done the rounds on marketplace - there was an identical one to it selling down in Cornwall not long ago ...